Re: What INFORMIX product shall I use?

In article <5j1pg9$um6@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bryan Tonnet <batonnet@zeta.org.au> writes >In <5ivg91$nv0@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> zeljan@laus.hr (Zeljan Silje) writes: > > >>Hi, > >>my company ordered RS/6000 (AIX4.2) with 160M RAM, with 2 disks (3 in >>near future), single CPU. I will use it for application development >>(about 20 or more database users). > >>Shall I use INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server(7.2?) or INFORMIX-OnLine >>Workgroup Server(7,2?) on mentioned machine? > >>What are advantages and disadvantages for both servers? > >From what I know, there's only a few differences between the two products. >Primarily, the parallel query option is missing in OWS, as is the so-called >'enterprise' data replication. > >Seeing as how you've only the one machine (no need for data replication of >any sort) and it's only a single CPU jobbie (no multi-threaded querys >possible), you'd save yourself a buck by using OWS. > >As an aside, and depending on precisely what your application is intended >for, and the volume of data travelling through it, have you considered SE. >Its a low maintenance, low cost engine that gives a good account of itself >in the bottom end of the DB market. Might even save you two bucks :) > >Bryan Tonnet >batonnet@zeta.org.au OWS is supposed to be the replacement for SE which is being phased out... -- David Williams